mercredi 13 juin 2018

This trippy tea house in Shanghai is built from 999 handmade timber sticks

Chinese design studio MINAX Architects have combined contemporary architecture with traditional Chinese tea drinking rituals in the ONE Teahouse, a cocoon-like space made with 999 handmade wooden sticks. Spanning an area of just 17.86 square meters, the compact teahouse was inserted as a renovation of an existing timber structure in Shanghai’s Hongkou District. The project was completed over the course of three months. Tea has long been an important part of Chinese traditional culture....